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Logic is a beautiful thing but it can also entrap or
imprison you and create numerous fetters in your mind. When you become
imprisoned by logic then you become cowardly, down cast and oppressed by your
environment. The people who embody the values of logic in a particular setting
are known as realists. They understand the system and all its trappings and all
the human agents involved. The problem with logic, however, is that it is tied
into a particular system. Each system has its own logic of administration. It functions
a particular way and is bound by rules. These can be natural rules of the
system or those imposed by a governing body. Those who call themselves
realists, therefore, are limited in their logical formulations to how the system
operates; they cannot function beyond the system itself and so are trapped and
oppressed. They can never see a better way. They frown at those who have the
ideas as to how the system should be transformed. The characteristic response
of realists is: ‘This is how it is’ or ‘a suh it guh’ or ‘this is how the
system works so what you’re saying does not make sense’. These realists are
normally impoverished or wish to
preserve the benefits they have accrued by understanding the system. When the
system goes into decline the foundations of their logic begin to crumble and
they hang on with great pride to their own little world as it begins to
decline. They hold their heads high in a lofty manner as the house collapses and
those elements that represent the source of the new foundations emerge
triumphant; those same people that did not make sense. They were idealists in
the eyes of the realists but the great idealists understand the system from a realistic
point of view and so are in the best position of formulating the ideas that
lead to real change. The flippant idealists have no understanding of the
foundations on which they are building. When you are a realist you should be
able to identify the gaps in the system itself. Some realists do see the gaps
and exploit it for their own ends but they cannot seem to step beyond what they
know and so highlight how these gaps can be closed or how the system can be
tweaked or altered in order to promote future growth or create a more unifying
element which may require smashing the old foundations. The realists are bound
by their material objectives and so the great idealists that see the hope
beyond the material are scorned because they have no material foundation to
rest upon as they plan. The reality is that the old foundation so cherished by
the realists represents the starting point for a break into a new system. The realists will never accept it and their
conservative mould will become an oppressive element and will be condemned to
the dustbin of history as the old regressive class. The growth of the idealist
class will eventually become the foundation for a new system which will operate
by its own rules of development but it will certainly be an advance over the
previous system. The new system will eventually be cocooned by its own values
once it has consolidated but for the time being the realists or conservatives
of the previous system will be remembered for the contribution to humanity by
developing the previous system that worked while it remained active but was
never going to be eternalized. The diehard realists always eternalize their system
or assume it will last forever because they have benefited tremendously or
believe they can benefit from it. If everything lasted forever then there would
be no such thing as change. Those who
don’t benefit will want the change and so will never conform to the logic of
the system because it is an oppressive element in their eyes. They will have to
find their own logic even if it does not make sense. They eventually saw the true nature of the system even more than the so called realists or experts.The realistic system only makes sense when the system is working.
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